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3 Reasons Millennials Should Consider Ditching Karl Marx for Ayn Rand

Posted by $ Olduglycarl 7 years, 11 months ago to Philosophy
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How many Millennial's will actually read this article?
Not much I can add in the way of commentary but I will comment on a couple of things I've always liked in Rand's writings.

1 “A civilized society is one in which physical force is banned from human relationships—in which the government, acting as a policeman, may use force only in retaliation and only against those who initiate its use.”
The Virtue of Selfishness, Ayn Rand

This is where Mark Hamilton's Prime Law comes from. In Essence: Force is only justified toward those that initiate it.

2...My all time favorite:
“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it’s yours.”
Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand

Those are the most beautiful works I ever heard.

I thought the article pitted the Virtues of Objectivism against Marxism victoriously.

What would you add to this.

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